World Patient Safety Day

Posted August 9, 2021 • Last updated March 9, 2022

Closed August 20, 2021

Open to Patient partners across Canada

Last updated March 9, 2022

Patients for Patient Safety Canada is inviting art submissions for a new online exhibition honouring this year’s World Patient Safety Day theme, Safe Maternal and Newborn Care. The virtual art exhibition will launch on September 17th and will include various works of art including paintings, fibre art, poetry, stories, sculpture, dance and music.

Everyone is welcome to submit art. The submission deadline is August 20, 2021 (MST) via heartofhealthcare2021@gmail.com.

Learn more at HeART of HealthCARE and Heart of Healthcare Submission Form.

For inspiration visit our existing art gallery: HeART of Healthcare: Safety, Healing and Partnership.

Recognizing the unique power of art, the HeART of HealthCARE virtual art gallery aims to bring awareness about patient safety, explore the impact of preventable harm, and inspire healing and action.

From Our Community

Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.